NDP Advanced Education and Skills critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says the province should have come up with a better way to mark the public college system’s 50th anniversary than a series of college program cuts.

NDP Advanced Education and Skills critic Dale Kirby (MHA, St. John’s North) says the cuts to a Labrador campus of the College of the North Atlantic make no sense, particularly in view of promises made to the people of Labrador about employment on new development projects.

Mr. Speaker, despite the need for licensed practical nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador, the College of the North Atlantic has not announced the new intake of LPN students at the Bay St. George Campus in Stephenville.